Description
For sale is a Near Fine 20th Anniversary Edition, Early Printing of The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien in a new archival wrap. 20th Anniversary Edition described, 1990 Houghton Mifflin. Seventh Printing with partial number line reversed, 10 9 8 7.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on the straight spine and the facsimile signature on the front. Also, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and two lightly bumped corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with price on the back cover mild edge wear, and looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Depicting the men of Alpha Company—Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three—the stories in The Things They Carried opened our eyes to the nature of war in a way we will never forget. It is taught everywhere, from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing, and in the decades since its publication it has never failed to challenge our perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, and courage, longing, and fear.
Ships promptly in a manila envelope with the book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
